I hate to tell you this, but we're just over a month away from Christmas!  Have you started on your cards yet?

As our challenge theme at Sweet Stampin' this fortnight is to Use Red, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to add another card to the Christmas pile (I admit, it's a very small pile right now - so small, in fact, that it probably doesn't even qualify as a pile).

Anyway, here's my DT card for the challenge!

I stamped the Stamping Bella Gnomes on to Make it Colour cardstock and used my Copics to colour it in. I added a little bit of Glamour Dust for some sparkle on the white trim and pom poms on their hats.  The sentiment is from a Lawn Fawn set, I think.

I adhered the image to a panel of red cardstock and layered this over a piece of embossed card which I then cut to A2 size.

This was reasonably quick to make and the embossed card just adds a subtle little something.

I hope you can play along with the team at Sweet Stampin' this fortnight.  Do check out the fab inspiration makes provided by my teamies over on the blog.

Have a great weekend

xxx

Special Lady

 Hello!  We have a new challenge starting at Sweet Stampin' today and we are celebrating the special women in our lives.

In the UK we are gearing up for Mothers Day, but to enter the challenge you can make any stamped project with a special lady in mind.  Here's my DT card

I'm still on a mission to use up my Maja Designs papers, as you can see!  I stamped a Stamping Bella image and coloured it with Copics, adding a few gems here and there as the only embellishments.  The sentiment is from an Altenew mini heart set.

We'd love you to play along with us this fortnight, so please hop over to the Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog to check out the details and the fab inspiration projects my teamies have made.

Have a great weekend!

xxx

Christmas in September - Sweet Stampin'

 Google tells me that there are only 92 days until Christmas!  So here's a wee reminder from all of us at Sweet Stampin' to get your Christmas craft on, with the added incentive of joining in with a Christmas themed challenge.

For my DT card I used a Stamping Bella stamp that I bought ages ago but didn't get around to colouring until the summer holidays.  I kept everything quite simple, just adding some glossy accents to the berries and a bit of shimmer pen here and there.  The sentiment is from a set by Avery Elle.

We'd love you to play along with our Christmas in September challenge this fortnight, so do hop over to the Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog to check out the details and see the fabby inspiration provided by the Team Susan Sweeties.

Have a wonderful weekend

T xx

Happy Birthday Sweet Stampin'!

 Hello!

It's our birthday week at Sweet Stampin' so both Team Wends and Team Susan are sharing inspiration cards for this fortnight's challenge.  Our theme, of course, is birthdays so here's what I made

I used a Stamping Bella image that I've had for ages and coloured her with Copics.  I kept everything really simple with just a plain purple mat, a bit of Sakura Glitter pen on the cake  and some purple adhesive dots for a bit of bling.

I do hope you can help us to celebrate our birthday by joining in with our challenge.  You'll find lots of inspiration and the challenge details over at the Sweet Stampin' challenge blog.

Have a wonderful weekend!

xxx

Christmas in September

 Good morning!  We're fast approaching the end of September and for many of us who haven't been making them all year round, it's time to start thinking about starting our Christmas cards.

To give you a bit of inspiration, our new fortnightly challenge theme at Sweet Stampin' is Christmas in September.  I can't resist making a Christmas card, so I'm joining in with Team Wendy this week.

I love colouring Stamping Bella's Bundle Girls and decided to experiment with dark red and dusky blue Copics this time. I kept everything pretty simple, with just a few tiny gems here and there for some sparkle.

I hope you'll be able to join in the fun over the next couple of weeks.  You'll find lots more inspiration, plus the challenge details, over at the Sweet Stampin' challenge blog.

Have a great weekend.

xxx

Happy New Year!

 A new year and a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin'.  Our theme is "New" so that could be anything you like: new year/home/baby, new stash, new technique... the choice is yours.

Here's my make

I coloured this Stamping Bella image with Copics.  It comes with the word bubble outline stamp and I was very brave, cutting up my sentiment stamp so that the words would fit. I was able to more or less match some enamel dots with my Hero Arts Cherry cardstock and with just a little sparkle courtesy of some clear Wink of Stella, the card was done.

I've had this stamp set for ages but probably have only used it once, so this is also part of my goal to use what I have more often.  

I hope you can play along with us at Sweet Stampin' this fortnight.  You'll find all the challenge details plus some fab inspiration from the Sweeties here.

Wishing you all a very happy and healthy 2021.  

Thank you so much for stopping by.

xxx

Christmas Critters

 I'm popping in quickly this afternoon (in between ironing and making pastry 😇) to share another Christmas card.

I love this stamp from Stamping Bella and never tire of colouring it, but opted for shades of green this time instead of my go-to red.  The DP is yet more of the Magnolia paper I bought donkeys years ago in all the colours.  I suspect it's duplicating itself in my paper drawer as there is still a stack of it left, despite me using it every year!

I thought I'd enter this is the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Blog:  It's Got To Be Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Challenge: Anything Christmas Goes

Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog: Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge: Christmas

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

xx

Up, up and away!

I hope you are managing to stay safe and well.

I knew it had been a while since I managed to get to my blog but even I was shocked at just how long it has been neglected.  Nothing exciting going on, just trying to teach from home and from next week, try to get my head round going back to school with a new kind of normal.

It's been near-impossible to get any card making done, but at last I've managed to actually finish something I started ages ago!

   

I stamped out this Stamping Bella image and coloured it with Copics before fussy cutting it out.  Using an MFT stencil and some Distress Ink, I created a cloudy sky background directly on the front of a tall, side folding card.

The sentiment is from one of the Altenew mini sets and was stamped in Obsidian black ink for a crisp impression.  I added some glitter to the spots on the balloon and carefully stencilled a little bit of cloudy sky on the image so that it blended in with the background.  The image was then popped up on foam pads.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge blog - Gingham/stripes/dots - 1 or all

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Stay Cosy

Just for a brief change from Christmas cards I thought I'd share a card I made for my mum-in-law. 

I love the autumnal colours in the papers and tried to match the red-brown with my Copics.  I sometimes find the smaller Stamping Bella images a little tricky to colour but this one was a joy.

Christmas preparations are underway here: cakes and puddings are made (one of each for us, one of each for mum and dad) and so is the mincemeat.   Was feeling quite virtuous until it dawned on me that I haven't started shopping for presents yet.  Oh well, there's always next weekend.

See you soon with another Christmas make.

Tracey xx

Anything Christmas at CaSS

It's May - I can hardly believe it!  It's exam time for us and in just a few days the Boy Wonder will be leaving school.  As for the thought of him heading off to college/uni later this year, well, let's just say I am nowhere near ready.

On the subject of being ready, over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' we have a new challenge to encourage you to get ahead with your Christmas cards.  Our theme is always Anything Goes (nice and easy).

My DT card for this month uses a cute Stamping Bella image but once again I've lapsed into my red/white/green colour habit.  Must try harder!

The CaSSettes, as always, have made the most lovely inspiration cards which you can check out here.
Hope you can play along!

Tracey xx